Pressure Cooker Recipes

A big Hello to all my fellow home cooking chefs!!

Today I have taken one of my favourite pressure cooker recipes to share with you, and it just has to be a delicious soup.

I call the East Coast of Africa home. Here on the East Coast Of Africa ,winter has arrived ,I know Gary (my son in the USA ) always laughs when I tell him it's cold because here on the East Coast people swim in the Indian Ocean all year round .

Any way, enough of that, today I'm going to share with you one of my favorite Pressure cooker recipe's.

Long long ago it used to take more than 3 hours to make a really good soup. But today I'm going to do a soup which I call a full "monty chunky" soup. This soup is packed with fresh veggies, marrow bones, lentils mushrooms, pasta, herbs and spices.

And what's great about this recipe is that it takes 40 minutes to cook and it's also Banting Diet friendly.

Ingredients for Pressure Cooker Recipe

Okey dokey, the advantage of doing this pressure cooker recipe is that you only need 4 utensils to complete the process namely: a sharp knife, a cutting board, a wooden spoon, a jug and the pressure cooker. Great hey? You only need to wash 4 utensils.

Let's start by gathering all our ingredients.

1 med size meaty beef shin bone chunk with marrow.

2 med size potato's (dice 1½ and grate the other ½). Banting dieters can use sweet potato or leave out this ingredient)

"Pressure cooking is the process of cooking food, using water or other cooking liquid, in a sealed vessel, known as a pressure cooker. As pressure cooking cooks food faster than conventional cooking methods, it saves energy.[1] Pressure is created by boiling a liquid, such as water or broth, inside the closed pressure cooker. The trapped steam increases the internal pressure and allows the temperature to rise. After use, the pressure is slowly released so that the vessel can be opened safely."

"Pressure cooking can be used for quick simulation of the effects of long braising. Almost any food which can be cooked in steam or water-based liquids can be cooked in a pressure cooker.[Okey Dokey enough of that ,we now know how a pressure works ,it time to cook"

Method for High Pressure Cooking Recipe

Plug your pressure cooker in

If you don't have an electic one, place cooker on hob do not switch on

Put shin bone, and all your ingredients into pressure cooker pot

Pour in your broth till it covers ingredients

Seal lid (make sure its sealed properly

Switch on cooker

Sett control to soup (if there's no setting time, cook for 45 minutes

Release pressure taking care not to burn yourself from the steam

All done easy hey

Time to now sit back legs up , switch the sports on TV and enjoy a beverage of your choice.

DING DING DING Time up pressure cooker calling.

Now please take care,. Again follow your pressure cooker instructions

Release pressure taking care not to burn yourself from the steam.

Remove the bay leaf.

Remove the shin bone, chop up the meat, mix with the marrow from the centre of the shin bone and place back into the pot.

Add the spaghetti and cook for a further 7 minutes (Banting dieters can add linguini spaghetti).

Plating

There are various ways of Serving. The ones below are just a few ideas

In a large soup bowls with croutons

In a big soup mug,

Sprinkle cheese of your choice on top

With fresh bread, bread rolls any make, shape, size or type .

With Croutons

Add a few drops of Tabasco sauce if you like a bit of "oomph" to your meals.

In 1679, the French physicist Denis Papin, better known for his studies on steam, invented the steam digester in an attempt to reduce the cooking time of food. His airtight cooker used steam pressure to raise the water's boiling point, thus cooking food much more quickly. In 1681, Papin presented his invention to the Royal Society of London, but the Society's members treated his invention as a scientific study. They granted him permission to become a member of the Society afterwards